Disclaimer-I don't own the Teen Titans, sadly enough. If i did, lots of things would change. All for the better, though.

The Phantom Bride

Story by StormDancer

Chapter 1

It is not light that we need, but fire; it
is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and
the earthquake.

The phone
rang, but no one answered it. The machine picked it up. A male voice
was heard on the message, pleading for her to pick it up. The machine
was suddenly shut off by a hand slamming on the button.

Raven
sighed angrily. How could he do this to her! She had thought he was
her best friend, and she his, but now he just moves! And he doesn't
tell her until the day before! How could he! See if she was going to
see him off! A vase shattered in her dorm room. She took a deep,
calming breath.

"Azarth,
metrion, zinthos," she muttered, bringing herself under control
once more.

Maybe she
would go see him off. She needed closure, somehow. She needed to know
that she felt nothing for him; nothing for that annoying, overly
hyper, adorable, kind Beast Boy. Her decision made, a portal opened,
and she stepped through it.

o0O0o0O0o

Beast Boy
stared at the phone in despair. She wasn't even going to see him
before he left. He had done all he could to coax her to come, but she
hadn't listened. He didn't want his last remembrance of her being
despair. He wanted to recall her happily, au revoir rather than good
bye. But she wasn't complying.

"You
have to leave soon, if you want to get there on time." Robin
informed him, putting a hand on his shoulder in a fatherly fashion,
"It seems she isn't coming."

Beast Boy
spun around angrily to face him.

"She'll
come," he said, half pleading, "She will. She has to."

Robin
began to speak again, to argue, but Starfire put an arm around him
gently.

The
minutes passed slowly, all of them waiting for her to come, Robin
despairingly, Starfire and Cyborg hopefully, and Beast Boy with a
sinking heart. 'She really isn't coming,' he realized
after a few moments.

He
sighed, and his friends turned to face him. Starfire pulled him into
a huge hug, nearly choking him.

"Star?
Could you please put me down?" he politely requested. She complied.

"Do
good there. You'll be a credit to the team," Robin told him
shaking Beast Boy's hand sedately, but not quite managing to hide
the catch in his voice. Beast Boy returned the handshake warmly.

"Of
course I will, Rob. If I'm not, who would be?" he joked lamely.
The other three looked at each other in complete agreement. He was
hopeless.

"Everybody,
dude. Call us, won't you? And send me any tech that you get so I
can take it apart," Cyborg responded, giving him a one armed guy
hug.

"You
got it," Beast Boy grinned, hiding the tears in his eyes.

"We
will miss you, friend. You will visit?" Star asked, crying softly.
It wasn't everyday a friend moved across the country. Beast Boy
gave her a quick hug.

"Of
course Star, whenever I can," he dropped his voice, "Tell Rae I
said bye, ok?"

Starfire
nodded dumbly.

Beast Boy
turned to look at his friends, all but one.

"Be
seeing you," he said, shifting into a bird and taking off. He was
almost at the top of the tower when a portal opened on top of it, and
Raven stepped out.

Beast Boy
saw her, and landed next to her on the roof.

"Decided
to come?" he asked slightly bitterly.

"Yeah,
I'm sorry about that," she replied quietly.

She
looked at him a moment in silence, than ran up to him and gave him a
quick hug. Beast Boy stiffened in shock, and she pulled away.

"Sorry.
Good-Bye, Beast Boy," she said stiffly, turning to go. Before she
could do so, Beast Boy pulled her into a hug.

"How
about au revoir?" He whispered to her. She grinned and nodded,
subtly wiping away a tear.

He smiled
at her, than took off once more, flying into the sunset. He didn't
look back.

"See
ya, Beast Boy," Raven murmured sadly. She waved until he was out of
sight, than stepped back through the portal into her dorm.

The other
three Titans looked up at the scene on the roof.

"I
guess the message will not need delivering now?" Starfire asked
slyly. All three were grinning. Maybe now Raven and Beast Boy would
finally realize their feelings.